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Be on the lookout for hard hats-library expansion is on its way
BY PHIL MULVANEY, LIBRARY DIRECTOR AND HAPPY SOUL
Oh joy! Oh rapture unforseen!
The cloudy skies are now serene!
Bids for the new library addition came in under
budget. We should see signs of construction in four
to five weeks.
Advice for advisors means better advice
Advising Center gears up for Summer and Fall registration
EXPONENT- Non-Profit Org.
U.S. Postage
Paid
Aberdeen, S.D. 57401
Permit No. 77
(605) 626-2534 Wednesday, April 5, 1995, Volume 93, Number 12 • Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD 57401
Ckeck if owl- El
Letters to the
editor page 2
Campus Poll page 3
Tim Boerger page 3
Top Ten page 3
Kpressionz page 5
Sports pages 6&7
The Exponent Is
looking for a new
editor (Biz is
retiring).
Applications are
available In IT 210.
The application
deadline is April 19
so act fast
Candidates cruise campus
BY ROBIN STAHL, STAFF
NSU students, faculty and staff had the opportunity to meet
the finalists for the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
in a series of public forums at NSU last week
The search committee narrowed the selection to four finalists,
according to Dr. Samuel Gingerich, interim vice president for
academic affairs. Gingerich reported that more than 40 appli-cants
from all over the country applied for the position.
The finalists for the opening are: Dr William Haigh, professor
of mathematics at NSU; Dr. Jay Ruud, professor of English,
NSU; Dr. Sally Boland, intern to the chancellor, American Coun-cil
on Education Fellow, University of Massachusetts; and Glenn
Nichols, dean of the School of Fine Arts, Sul Ross State Univer-sity,
Alpine, Texas.
A cautious behind-the-scenes source reported that right now
they believed Dr. Boland to be the frontrunner. However, no
decision has been made. The committee will continue to meet
over the next week to make their final decision.
The new dean for the College of Arts and Sciences will replace
Dr. Richard Chuang, who is retiring from the position so that he
can return to the dassroom and devote more time to both
teaching and writing.
Dr. Chuang joined the Northern faculty in 1968, became chair
of the department of social sciences in 1979, chair of the faculty
of both social and natural sciences in 1983, and was appointed
founding dean of the college of Arts and Sciences in 1984.
The search committee is chaired by Dr. Philip Mulvaney,
director of library services.
BY KRISTA LUCAS, STAFF
To celebrate the 25th anni-versary
of Earth Day, the 1995
Writer Reads series focuses its
attention and ours on the en-vironment.
The first two writers of the
series Joe and Nancy Paddock
come to Aberdeen April 10th
to discuss "what is our rela-tionship
and our responsibil-ity
to the land?" There will be
two readings, the first will be
at 3 p.m. in NSU's fireside
room in the Memorial Union.
Joe and Nancy will give a
second talk at 7 p.m. in the
Alexander Mitchell Library. At
this reading Father Joseph
Sheehan, Chair of Arts and
Sciences will involve the Pad-docks
in a discussion of their
work and topics such as farm-land
preservation and land
stewardship.
The Paddocks come to Ab-erdeen
from Litchfield, Min-nesota.
Joe has been involved
with projects in the humani-ties,
rural arts and the envi-ronment
since the 70's. He's
written several books of po-etry,
stories and magazine ar-ticles.
He and Nancy co-authored
the bookSoil and Sur-vival.
Nancy has been the editor of
The Stewardship Letter for
past 10 years. She's written two
plays with environmental
themes, and she's also pub-lished
many of her poems. She
now teaches Journalism and
Technical Communications at
Litchfield High School.
The series concludes on April
2244t hw ith writer Dan O'Brien.
O'Brien will have his first read-ing
at 3 p.m. and it will again
be in the Memorial Union's fire-side
Room. An evening talk is
scheduled for? p.m. in the base-ment
meeting room of the
Alexander Mitchell Library
and NSU's Dr. David Newquist
willlead the discussion on top-ics
such as the vanishing wil-derness,
the disappearance of
the "Old West" and the end of
individualism.
O'Brian is from Rapid City,
an he is an endangered species
biologist, cattle rancher, Fal-coner
and novelist. His first
book,Eminent Domain, won the
Iowa Short Story Fiction
Award in 1986. All presenta-tions
for the series are free and
open to the community.
Writer Reads series
comes to Northern
Minnesotans and South Dakotan bring
experience and concern for the environment
to help celebrate Earth Day's 25th anniversary
Campus Cop warns students
to be better BY ROBIN STAHL, STAFF
prepared
BY JENNIFER PINT, SPECIAL
It's time to register for an-other
semester already. Dur-ing
this time, NSU's advising
system seems to rise to the
forefront, consuming much
time and thought for students
and advisors alike. With ad-vising
on the mind these days,
I thought this would be an
appropriate time to inform stu-dents
of the many changes and
improvements to the advising
system that are currently in
the works.
Perhaps some of you re-member
completing an ad-visement
survey in one of your
dasses last spring. Nearly 400
students provided their
thoughts on advisement
through an instrument created
by the Advisement Commit-tee,
a sub-committee of the
Retention Committee. The
purpose of the survey was to
let the committee know what
students like about the cur-rentadvising
system and what
may need improvement. These
survey results, in addition to
our own observations, have
led to some changes we hope
you will find quite useful.
1. Degree audit system. At
the present time, 'checklists"
of courses needed to complete
a program are typed by hand
and sent to students and advi-sors
once a semester. Many
students had indicated in the
survey that checklists were one
of the most helpful instruments
provided for course schedul-ing
purposes; however, a
checklist cannot be created
until the student has completed
30 hours. A degree audit sys-tem
is an automated checklist
program. It will provide a stu-dent
with a checklist as early
as the first day of attendance.
The degree audit system can
also be used to evaluate a
student's academic history
against any program offered
at NSU. Students considering
a different major can find out
quickly how many additional
hours will be required as a re-sult
of a program change. The
system is scheduled for imple-mentation
in the fall of 1995.
2 Catalog revision. Cur-rently,
an ad hoc committee is
working on a major revamp-ing
of the catalog, both the de-sign
and the content. The goal
of the committee is to arrive at
a more user-friendly catalog.
A more consistent format, logi-cal
ordering of material, and a
better index will make the cata-log
easier to read.
a Academic Advisement
Handbook for Faculty. To
provide consistency and cen-tralization
of information re-lated
to advising, we have cre-ated
a faculty advisement
handbook for faculty use. A
pilot project is currently un-derway,
with a select group of
faculty participating in this
project and providing feed-back
to the committee. We will
use this feedback to improve
the handbook, and then dis-tribute
it to all faculty during
faculty orientation in the fall.
4. Advisement Policy in the
Student Handbook. A Student
Senate committee and the Ad-visement
Committee are work-ing
together to draft an ad-visement
policy for inclusion
in the student handbook, and
will review this policy with
the Retention Committee, the
Faculty Senate and the Student
Senate prior to publication.
A s you can see from the items
listed above, we recognize the
importance of advising to all
students' educational careers
and are striving for improve-ments
from which we can all
benefit. However, for every-one
to realize these benefits,
you must remember that ad-vising
is a two-way street: for
the advising system to work
for you, you need to make use
of it!
Jen Pint is the Director of the
Academic Advising Center on campus.
Harassing phone calls is the
biggest complaint of NSU stu-dents
to campus police officer
Dave Lunzman. Lunzman
says that the second biggest
problem is intential damages
or vandalism, and the third is
burglaries of cars and rooms.
"Theft of items from cam-pus
dorm rooms
is on the rise," said
Lunzman, "When
students aren't in
their dorm room
or even their
apartment, they
should keep it
locked. It's just the
old adage that ev-eryone
thinks that
'it won't happen
to them'."
Lunzman says that he con-siders
the NSU campus to be a
town within itself with differ-ent
types of problems than the
city of Aberdeen.
"Alcohol is one of the big-gest
contributing factors to
crime in general," surmises
Lunzman, "I have found that
alcohol is the root of a good
portion of offenses both on and
off campus."
Luzman said that the Aber-deen
Area is relatively safe.
He warns students to watch
surroundings, and when
walking to use the buddy sys-tem
and to walk in a well
lighted area.
'One thing I want to get
across is that just because I'm
patrollingNorthern's campus,
students should not let their
guard down. I can't be in all
areas of the campus at once. I
try to vary my daily routine so
that potential of-fenders
are never
sure of where I'll
be at a certain
time, but there is
only one of me.
Be sure to take
the same preven-tative
measures '
that you nor-mally
would,"
said Lunzman.
"In the year that
I've been here, it would seem
that crime is on the rise. This
can be a positive thing in the
fact that it means that more
crimes are being reported," he
added.
He says that there is a possi-bility
that another officer may
be added in the future so that
more hours of the day can be
patrolled at Northern.
Officer Lunzman is a five
year member the Aberdeen
Police Department. It is his
first year on NSU's campus.

Be on the lookout for hard hats-library expansion is on its way
BY PHIL MULVANEY, LIBRARY DIRECTOR AND HAPPY SOUL
Oh joy! Oh rapture unforseen!
The cloudy skies are now serene!
Bids for the new library addition came in under
budget. We should see signs of construction in four
to five weeks.
Advice for advisors means better advice
Advising Center gears up for Summer and Fall registration
EXPONENT- Non-Profit Org.
U.S. Postage
Paid
Aberdeen, S.D. 57401
Permit No. 77
(605) 626-2534 Wednesday, April 5, 1995, Volume 93, Number 12 • Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD 57401
Ckeck if owl- El
Letters to the
editor page 2
Campus Poll page 3
Tim Boerger page 3
Top Ten page 3
Kpressionz page 5
Sports pages 6&7
The Exponent Is
looking for a new
editor (Biz is
retiring).
Applications are
available In IT 210.
The application
deadline is April 19
so act fast
Candidates cruise campus
BY ROBIN STAHL, STAFF
NSU students, faculty and staff had the opportunity to meet
the finalists for the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
in a series of public forums at NSU last week
The search committee narrowed the selection to four finalists,
according to Dr. Samuel Gingerich, interim vice president for
academic affairs. Gingerich reported that more than 40 appli-cants
from all over the country applied for the position.
The finalists for the opening are: Dr William Haigh, professor
of mathematics at NSU; Dr. Jay Ruud, professor of English,
NSU; Dr. Sally Boland, intern to the chancellor, American Coun-cil
on Education Fellow, University of Massachusetts; and Glenn
Nichols, dean of the School of Fine Arts, Sul Ross State Univer-sity,
Alpine, Texas.
A cautious behind-the-scenes source reported that right now
they believed Dr. Boland to be the frontrunner. However, no
decision has been made. The committee will continue to meet
over the next week to make their final decision.
The new dean for the College of Arts and Sciences will replace
Dr. Richard Chuang, who is retiring from the position so that he
can return to the dassroom and devote more time to both
teaching and writing.
Dr. Chuang joined the Northern faculty in 1968, became chair
of the department of social sciences in 1979, chair of the faculty
of both social and natural sciences in 1983, and was appointed
founding dean of the college of Arts and Sciences in 1984.
The search committee is chaired by Dr. Philip Mulvaney,
director of library services.
BY KRISTA LUCAS, STAFF
To celebrate the 25th anni-versary
of Earth Day, the 1995
Writer Reads series focuses its
attention and ours on the en-vironment.
The first two writers of the
series Joe and Nancy Paddock
come to Aberdeen April 10th
to discuss "what is our rela-tionship
and our responsibil-ity
to the land?" There will be
two readings, the first will be
at 3 p.m. in NSU's fireside
room in the Memorial Union.
Joe and Nancy will give a
second talk at 7 p.m. in the
Alexander Mitchell Library. At
this reading Father Joseph
Sheehan, Chair of Arts and
Sciences will involve the Pad-docks
in a discussion of their
work and topics such as farm-land
preservation and land
stewardship.
The Paddocks come to Ab-erdeen
from Litchfield, Min-nesota.
Joe has been involved
with projects in the humani-ties,
rural arts and the envi-ronment
since the 70's. He's
written several books of po-etry,
stories and magazine ar-ticles.
He and Nancy co-authored
the bookSoil and Sur-vival.
Nancy has been the editor of
The Stewardship Letter for
past 10 years. She's written two
plays with environmental
themes, and she's also pub-lished
many of her poems. She
now teaches Journalism and
Technical Communications at
Litchfield High School.
The series concludes on April
2244t hw ith writer Dan O'Brien.
O'Brien will have his first read-ing
at 3 p.m. and it will again
be in the Memorial Union's fire-side
Room. An evening talk is
scheduled for? p.m. in the base-ment
meeting room of the
Alexander Mitchell Library
and NSU's Dr. David Newquist
willlead the discussion on top-ics
such as the vanishing wil-derness,
the disappearance of
the "Old West" and the end of
individualism.
O'Brian is from Rapid City,
an he is an endangered species
biologist, cattle rancher, Fal-coner
and novelist. His first
book,Eminent Domain, won the
Iowa Short Story Fiction
Award in 1986. All presenta-tions
for the series are free and
open to the community.
Writer Reads series
comes to Northern
Minnesotans and South Dakotan bring
experience and concern for the environment
to help celebrate Earth Day's 25th anniversary
Campus Cop warns students
to be better BY ROBIN STAHL, STAFF
prepared
BY JENNIFER PINT, SPECIAL
It's time to register for an-other
semester already. Dur-ing
this time, NSU's advising
system seems to rise to the
forefront, consuming much
time and thought for students
and advisors alike. With ad-vising
on the mind these days,
I thought this would be an
appropriate time to inform stu-dents
of the many changes and
improvements to the advising
system that are currently in
the works.
Perhaps some of you re-member
completing an ad-visement
survey in one of your
dasses last spring. Nearly 400
students provided their
thoughts on advisement
through an instrument created
by the Advisement Commit-tee,
a sub-committee of the
Retention Committee. The
purpose of the survey was to
let the committee know what
students like about the cur-rentadvising
system and what
may need improvement. These
survey results, in addition to
our own observations, have
led to some changes we hope
you will find quite useful.
1. Degree audit system. At
the present time, 'checklists"
of courses needed to complete
a program are typed by hand
and sent to students and advi-sors
once a semester. Many
students had indicated in the
survey that checklists were one
of the most helpful instruments
provided for course schedul-ing
purposes; however, a
checklist cannot be created
until the student has completed
30 hours. A degree audit sys-tem
is an automated checklist
program. It will provide a stu-dent
with a checklist as early
as the first day of attendance.
The degree audit system can
also be used to evaluate a
student's academic history
against any program offered
at NSU. Students considering
a different major can find out
quickly how many additional
hours will be required as a re-sult
of a program change. The
system is scheduled for imple-mentation
in the fall of 1995.
2 Catalog revision. Cur-rently,
an ad hoc committee is
working on a major revamp-ing
of the catalog, both the de-sign
and the content. The goal
of the committee is to arrive at
a more user-friendly catalog.
A more consistent format, logi-cal
ordering of material, and a
better index will make the cata-log
easier to read.
a Academic Advisement
Handbook for Faculty. To
provide consistency and cen-tralization
of information re-lated
to advising, we have cre-ated
a faculty advisement
handbook for faculty use. A
pilot project is currently un-derway,
with a select group of
faculty participating in this
project and providing feed-back
to the committee. We will
use this feedback to improve
the handbook, and then dis-tribute
it to all faculty during
faculty orientation in the fall.
4. Advisement Policy in the
Student Handbook. A Student
Senate committee and the Ad-visement
Committee are work-ing
together to draft an ad-visement
policy for inclusion
in the student handbook, and
will review this policy with
the Retention Committee, the
Faculty Senate and the Student
Senate prior to publication.
A s you can see from the items
listed above, we recognize the
importance of advising to all
students' educational careers
and are striving for improve-ments
from which we can all
benefit. However, for every-one
to realize these benefits,
you must remember that ad-vising
is a two-way street: for
the advising system to work
for you, you need to make use
of it!
Jen Pint is the Director of the
Academic Advising Center on campus.
Harassing phone calls is the
biggest complaint of NSU stu-dents
to campus police officer
Dave Lunzman. Lunzman
says that the second biggest
problem is intential damages
or vandalism, and the third is
burglaries of cars and rooms.
"Theft of items from cam-pus
dorm rooms
is on the rise," said
Lunzman, "When
students aren't in
their dorm room
or even their
apartment, they
should keep it
locked. It's just the
old adage that ev-eryone
thinks that
'it won't happen
to them'."
Lunzman says that he con-siders
the NSU campus to be a
town within itself with differ-ent
types of problems than the
city of Aberdeen.
"Alcohol is one of the big-gest
contributing factors to
crime in general," surmises
Lunzman, "I have found that
alcohol is the root of a good
portion of offenses both on and
off campus."
Luzman said that the Aber-deen
Area is relatively safe.
He warns students to watch
surroundings, and when
walking to use the buddy sys-tem
and to walk in a well
lighted area.
'One thing I want to get
across is that just because I'm
patrollingNorthern's campus,
students should not let their
guard down. I can't be in all
areas of the campus at once. I
try to vary my daily routine so
that potential of-fenders
are never
sure of where I'll
be at a certain
time, but there is
only one of me.
Be sure to take
the same preven-tative
measures '
that you nor-mally
would,"
said Lunzman.
"In the year that
I've been here, it would seem
that crime is on the rise. This
can be a positive thing in the
fact that it means that more
crimes are being reported," he
added.
He says that there is a possi-bility
that another officer may
be added in the future so that
more hours of the day can be
patrolled at Northern.
Officer Lunzman is a five
year member the Aberdeen
Police Department. It is his
first year on NSU's campus.